Racial Segregations and Hope for More Equal Life in McBride's Autobiography, Color of Water

McBride confirmed racial discrimination in the south when showing mother and his father who abused his father in the 1940 's. By referring to his past, he emphasized apartheid to draw a more equitable lifestyle. When apartheid began he questioned his identity and wondered why his mother was white and he was black. When James went to the bus to take him to a summer camp, the child held his father's hand in the "hip-hop" way, and said his father was a black leopard child face (P.

In the color of water, James McBride wrote his autobiography and a tribute to his mother, Ruth McBride's life. Ruth married Andrew Dennis McBride, a Negro from North Carolina. James' childhood age was spent in a chaotic family of 12 children. Ruth did not want to discuss the painful details of her early family life when her abusive father Tate told her sullen and gentle mother, Ma Mei. Ruth interrupted all her relations with the Jewish family. Because when they married James' father they basically did not know her.

The novel "Water color" is the story of writer and talker James McBride and his mother Ruth. It begins to accept identity in their life of their childhood - when they are all bound by their mother - in their lives. In addition, this memoir is quite different, because McBride tries to compare his story subtlely with his mother with a double story. This technique further contributes to the subject of self identification. Throughout the novel, McBride will search for identity and sense of attribution derived from his multiethnic family. McBride gradually established its identity by using two different narrations and eventually integrated the two narratives. They gather and understand each other's views

The full potential of human beings is this potential, and we are aware of it. It is divided into morality, lack of spontaneity and prejudice. Two articles I read, Malcolm's autobiography by James McBride's "The color of water" and Alex Harry, James McBride and Malcolm X are, to some extent, "self-fulfilling". James McBride is to some extent a "self-fulfilling" person, because in his life he has a white Jewish mother.